Vehicle.



Patented Sept. 2, I902. N. P. MADER.

V E H IC L E.

(Application filed Feb. 20, 1902.

(No Model.)

MMM

cums. WASNINGTON, a. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS P. MADER, OF SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN.

VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,056, dated September 2, 1902. Application filed February 20, 1902. Serial No. 94,916. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS P. MADER, residing at Sun-Prairie, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vehicles, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

This invention relates to vehicles, and more particularly to improvements in wagon-bodies and means for binding the several members thereof together.

The object of this invention is to produce simple, durable, and cheap means for binding the sides and ends-of a wagon-body to the bottom thereof, the binder being also adapted to serve, at one end at least, as an abutment against which a hinged end may rest when closed up. This and other objects I attain in constructing a wagon-body embodying the parts'hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side View in elevation of a wagon-body embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same withportions at the rear thereof shown broken away for convenience of illustration. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary View of the bottom of said body and illustrates the supporting means for the same. Fig. at is a detail view in perspective of the means for binding members at the rear end of the body to the bottom. Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of a form of my binding device.

Throughout the several views like parts are denoted by like characters.

In the drawings I have shown a wagon-body consisting of a bottom or floor 1, having the boards forming the same running lengthwise thereof. Secured to the under side of said fioor or bottom are three cross-braces 2, 3, and 4, brace 2 of which may protrude or extend beyond the sides of the floor. Resting on and secured to the bottom are the sides or side-boards 5 and 6. secured to the sides and the bottom and extends to the lower plane of the bottom. A cross-brace 8 rests on the floor of the bottom at its front and preferably contacts with the sides and front board. A rear end-board 9 is hinged to cross-brace 2. The bottom,

A front end-board 7 is sides, and front board, together with the cross-braces 2, 3, 4:, and 8, may, with the binders,be secured together by anysuitable means, and this invention includes a cheap and efficient means for binding these parts together and acting as protectors to the several parts. The top of each side is protected by one face of an angle-iron 10, which covers the same from side to side and end to end. The other face of the angle-iron lies along the side adjacent to the top, as shown in Fig. 1. A binder 11, formed of angle-iron,.is provided for the rear end of each side, and each of said binders is provided with a face. 12 to cover the rear end of the side and to act as an abutment for the swinging end-board. This face 12 is extended down and bent at a right angle, so as to lie under and form a support 13 for one end of cross-brace 2. The other face of the binder 11 is adapted to lie along the side adjacent to the end and to be bent near its bottom, as at 15, at a right angle, so as to rest on one extended end of cross-brace 2. A bolt 16 passes through the upper face of angle-iron 10, through the side 5, through crossbrace 2, and through face 13 of binder 11. A bolt 17 passes through face 15 of binder 11 and through the extended end of cross-brace 2. Bolts 18, preferably two in number, extend through face 14 of binder 11 and through side 5. A bolt 19 passes through face'12 of binder 11 and through cross-brace 2. It will be seen that binder 11, with the bolts passing through its faces and through the parts of the body which it is adapted to bind, will bind said parts effectively. A bolt 20 passes through the upper face of angle-iron or binder 10, through the side 5 of the body, and through cross-brace 4.. A similar bolt 21 passes through the upper face of binder 10, through side 5, and through the bottom board beneath side 5. The sides and front of the body are securely braced to the bottom, or more properly to cross-brace 8, by means of bracing-posts 22. Each post is formed of angle-iron, as shown in Fig. 5, one of the faces 23 of which is bent at right angles to the other two. Bolts 24.,

preferably two in number, secure the post to the side of the body. A dashboard-support 25, provided with a portion 26, which extends from the top of the front of the body to the top of the face 23 of post 22, is bent over at a right angle, so as to rest on said face 23. Bolts 27, preferably two in number, extend through portion 26 of the dashboard-support, through one face of post 22, and through the front of the body. A member 28 for supporting the front of the body on the springs of the vehicle or running-gear is provided with a portion 29, which extends below the body and in line with face 23 of post 22, and a bolt 30 extends through the lower end of the dashboard-support 25, through face 23 of post 22, through cross-brace 8, through the floor of the body, and through portion 29 of supporting member 28. From the construction and arrangement of these various members and the manner of bolting the same together it will be seen that eflective binding means are produced.

For supporting or hanging the body to the side springs or running-gear of the vehicle I show a supporting member 31, preferably formed of wrought-iron, with a face 32, adapted to rest on and to be secured to said springs or running-gear. The supporting member extends down and under the body of the vehicle and by suitable means is secured to cross-brace 3. To prevent the same from swinging or wabbling, a cross-arm 33 is riveted thereto at right angles, and each end of said cross-arms is by suitable means secured to the body-bottom.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a vehicle-body, the combination with a side-board, a bottom, anda cross-brace un- 35 der the bottom at the end of the body and projecting laterally beyond the side-board, of a corner angle-iron binder secured to said side-board and brace, one flange of which binder fits against the outer side of and is secured to the side-board and the other flange of which fits against the end of the body, the side flange being at its lower end turned outwardly transversely and fitted and secured to the top surface of the cross-brace, and the end flange being at its lower end at a distance below the end of the side flange turned inwardly transversely and fitted and secured to the lower surface of the cross-brace.

2. Abinderfor avehicle-body, consisting of a section of angle-iron or similar material, the flanges of which are of unequal length the shorter flange at its lower end being turned transversely outwardly and the longer flange being turned transversely inwardly at a distance below the termination and transverse portion of the shorter flange, the binder having provision for securing it to the corner of a vehicle-bod y.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NICHOLAS P. MADER.

Witnesses:

J. M. BATZ, ANNA BATZ. 

